Monday, July 02, 2007

McCain's Troubles   [Byron York]

John McCain's top staffers have just finished a conference call with reporters to discuss McCain's latest financial report.  It was a pretty unhappy affair.  The staff is laying people off, while others are taking pay cuts, and at least one — campaign manager Terry Nelson — will be working without pay.  McCain reported raising $11.2 million in the last quarter, with just $2 million in cash on hand.

One question was how McCain's fundraising was affected by his stand in favor of the recent immigration bill.  "You can't quantify it," said top adviser John Weaver.  "We do know that it had a significant effect in this last quarter.  We're very proud of John taking a leadership role in this…but we wouldn't be straight with you if we told you that it didn't have an impact.  Having said that, that debate is now over…but it did have an impact."

07/02 02:40 PMShare